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GEORGE W. KING, deceased, was born near Gettysburg, Adams County, Penn., October 15, 1797, and was the sixth of ten children born to Hugh and Abigail (Voorhees) King. His father was an Ensign in the Revolutionary war, and, being taken prisoner by the British, was kept in confinement about four years. George W. was reared on his father’s farm and received a classical education in Gettysburg and Dickinson College. He studied law for a period of three years in Gettysburg; was admitted to the bar in November, 1817, and in the following December moved to Ripley, Ohio, where he commenced the practice of his profession, he and his father-in-law, John S. Wills, being the first resident lawyers of the newly formed County of Brown. In 1818, he was appointed the first Prosecuting Attorney of Brown County, and served in that capacity for eight consecutive years, when he resigned. In 1831, he removed to Georgetown, where he continued to reside until his death. In 1832, he was appointed Clerk of the Supreme and Common Pleas Courts of Brown County, and served eight years. He was an able lawyer and a highly respected citizen; in politics, he was a Republican, and in religion a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1818, he was married to Elizabeth M. Wills, a native of Chillicothe, Ohio; eight children were born to them. He died in September, 1879.